| 单词 | bastard box |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbastard box bastard box n. Botany (a) Australian any of several rough-barked eucalyptus trees; (also) the wood of such a tree; (b) shrubby milkwort, Polygala chamaebuxus, an evergreen shrub which is native to alpine regions of west-central Europe and has white or purple flowers with yellow stigmatic lobes; (c) Australian an evergreen tree native to Australia and cultivated elsewhere, Lophostemon confertus (family Myrtaceae), having glossy ovate leaves and clusters of feathery white flowers. ΚΠ 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) App. v. 1597 (heading) Of Bastard dwarfe Box.] 1804 R. Brown Diary 14 Sept. in T. G. Vallance et al. Nature's Investigator: Diary R. Brown in Austral. 1801–5 xxiii. 528 Bastard Box tree. Differing from Box properly so called in having its bark less smooth. 1830 J. C. Loudon Hortus Britannicus 295 (table) [Polygala] Chamæbuxus L. Bastard Box. 1872 Jrnl. Legislative Council New S. Wales 21 140 Tristania conferta..bastard-box. 1905 Weekly Times (Melbourne) 26 Jan. 38/2 There is..great confusion regarding many of the species of eucalyptus that yield these timbers... Four kinds give bastard box, and in Victoria ironbark is obtained from two different trees. 1999 Britannica Online (Version 99.1) The only genus with any horticultural importance is Polygala, with about two dozen species grown as ornamentals—e.g., the bastard box (P. chamaebuxus), used in rock gardens. 2001 T. G. Vallance et al. in Nature's Investigator: Diary R. Brown in Austral. 1801–5 xxiii. 531 The name Bastard Box or Brush Box is usually applied to Lophostemon confertus (R.Br.) Peter G. Wilson & Waterhouse (Myrtaceae). 2011 G. M. Cunningham et al. Plants Western New S. Wales (new ed.) 524/1 Black box Eucalyptus largiflorens... Swamp box, grey box,..bastard box, murray box, river black box. < as lemmas |
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